Malcolm Blair-Robinson is a writer and blogger who has been a keen political observer for more than sixty years. Born a Tory, he became a founder member of the SDP, before gradually migrating left. In 2014 he published his idea of Dynamic Quantitative Easing which aroused interest in high places and this forms a core […]
Labour has been working hard to regain the initiative as the political opposition following its bloodletting on who should be its leader. Having resolved that self indulgent question with the ever popular Corbyn returning with an increased mandate, it finds a country drifting rudderless in a Brexit fog and awaiting with anxiety the onset of […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. The novel catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage […]
The answer is the latter in the case of the UK in 2017. There was a time perhaps in 2010/11 when austerity was good, but without making it part of a plan to re-boot the economy and maintaining it year after year, through one parliament into the next, is mathematically pointless, hugely damaging to the […]
Few decent people would find fault with a good deal of May’s speech about her new buzz trend, the Sharing Society. But what happened to Cameron’s Big Society, based presumably on Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society of the post Kennedy era? The common thing about all these societies is that they never happen. Because people are bigger […]
For years I have been saying and writing that with the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union, Russia should be accepted by the West and is no longer, and should not be seen as, an enemy. America has consistently refused to accept that notion and has during Obama’s second term done much to build Russia up […]
It is put about by Downing Street spinners that May will be making a Big Speech soon (soon =after the Supreme Court has given its ruling, also soon, but that soon = when they are ready). She will lay out her government’s negotiating ‘stance’ and at last we will know where we are headed. But […]
I am sorry but the latest update of my blog platform from WordPress has omitted the justification option button, causing a more untidy looking blog at the margin. I am sorry about this. Hopefully there will be another update to correct the problem.
The Obama administration did much to restore America’s tarnished overseas reputation post Bush II, but paradoxically was entirely out of its depth trying to resolve international problems, which largely it made worse. Trump has all along demonstrated a more focused understanding and has appointed a cabinet which appears to reflect that. Careful reading of the […]
To all followers of this Blog, my best wishes to achieve your goals and ambitions in 2017. A lot is going to happen in what will be a year of many changes. We have Trump, Brexit, Europe, the Middle East, faltering globalization and the rise of an anti establishment political wave called populism. All of it […]